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J. D. GIDLEY.

UNDER GARMENT.

No. 326,639. Patented Sept. 22, 1885.

UNITED STATES PATENT EricE.

JENNIE D. GIDLEY, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y.

UNDER-GARMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,639, dated September 22, 1885.

Application filed February 6, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it nuty concern.-

Be it known that I. JENNIE D. GIDLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at No. 219 WVest Twenty-first street, in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented anew and useful Combination Under-Garment, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates .to improvements in under-garments, consisting of an undershirt and drawers formed into one garment; and the objects of my improvements are to dis pense with the usual gussets employed to c011- form the garment to the shape of the bust and to shorten the front seam so as to avoid the surplus of material in the crotch that must exist when the front and back seams are of equal length. By this means I am enabled to makea combination garment that shall fit close to the body of the wearer below the waist and to the limbs, thus suiting the garment for the use of males as well as of females. A further object of my invention is to cause the fullness of the garment that is necessary to enable it to fit below the waist to be at the back and not at the front of the garment, as is usually the case. I attain these objects by the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a View of one-half of the pattern shown spread out, and Fig. 2 is a front View of the pattern put together.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the two views.

Seaming up the opening at A in Fig. 1 forms the dart F in Fig. 2, and gathers in the material below the bust, thus forming the waist. The material cut out at B, Fig. 1, so as to form the dart B, Fig. 2, removes the surplus material that would otherwise cause a fullness or bagginess in front; or, in other words, the dart B shortens the front, throwing the point 0 above the point D; whereas in the absence of darts B (the garment being cut from one piece) the point 0 would require to be level or even with the point D, and would therefore be brought down to the dotted line E, and this causes a bagginess or surplus of material in the front of the crotch when the garment is on the wearer.

WVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The herein described under-garment, the same consisting of a garment comprising the two complementary parts, each consisting of a single piece of fabric and each of said parts having darts F and B, whereby the lower front portion of the garment is drawn up and the lateral dimension of the waist-portion reduced in size, as described.

JENNIE D. GIDLEY.

\Vitncsses:

,JOSHUA RosE, LUcINE RosE. 

